[Rarebooks] fa: POBLACION GENERAL DE ESPANA - Survey of SPAIN & PORTUGAL - 1645

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with several others of a similar ilk, auctions  
ending Oct. 19...

[Rodrigo Méndez Silva: Poblacion General de España. Sus trofeos,  
blasones, y conquistas heroycas, descripciones agradables, grandezas  
notables, excelencias gloriosas, y sucessos memorables. Con muchas, y  
curiosas noticias, flores cogidas en el estimable iardin de la  
preciosa antiguedad, reales genealogias, y catalogos de dignidades  
eclesiasticas, y seglares. Madrid: D. Diaz de la Carrera, a costa de  
P. Coello, 1645.] FIRST EDITION. Tall 4to (28.5 x 20 cm) in full tree  
calf, spine and morocco spine label stamped in gilt; 9 [of 11] p.l.,  
300 [of 301] numb. l. (some erratic pagination, as issued); woodcuts,  
head- and tail-pieces, ornamental initials.

Lacking frontispiece, title-page, one leaf of the preface by Don  
Joseph Pellicer, and the last leaf of the text, otherwise complete.  
First edition of this monumental, encyclopedic survey of Spain and  
Portugal by Rodrigo Méndez Silva, historian, pioneering geographer and  
industrious genealogist. More than 600 pages, with entries for more  
than 750 cities, towns and other localities, describing their  
populations, geography, buildings, etc., the account of each city  
accompanied by a list of authorities. The last 80+ pages of the volume  
comprise Méndez Silva's <i>Genealogias Reales de España</i> (lacking  
the last leaf). ... An imperfect, but essentially sound example of an  
important and very uncommon work: we find no other copies available on  
any bookdealer databases and OCLC locates only 7 copies in the U.S...

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Gracias,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.